[MITgcm-support] Wind-driven buoyancy flux (WDBF) in KPP

[Liam Brannigan]

Dear MITgcmers

What's the best way to modify the KPP code to account for wind-driven buoyancy fluxes driven by down-front winds?  This issue arises as down-front winds drive dense water over light water, which triggers convection in the real ocean, but doesn't in the KPP scheme as the non-local convective adjustment is only switched-on for destabilising surface forcing.

There are a number of ways to do this - the most obvious is described in the appendix of Thomas 2005 (http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JPO2830.1).  Has anyone implemented this and would consider sharing their code?  I would be happy to help to get it added as a standard option in the model code.

Liam

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